Rita Dove Quotes
Most popular Rita Dove Quotes
Anecdotes The poor man's history.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated, you carry it around with you, and it nourishes you when you need it.
Poetry is the purest of the language arts. It's the tightest cage, and if you can get to sing in that cage it's really really wonderful.
